Recommedations for a good high capacity archive HDD?

[Beastie]

Looking for a new HDD to archive movies, music, photos etc.

Priorities are reliability and capacity.

Disk will pretty much only be used to archive and to back up in case of desktop disk failure. The disk will be kept on the shelf and accessed using a USB - SATA caddy, so will not be installed in a rig.

Speed is fairly irrelevant.

The bigger the better, 8TB+ is preferable but I would consider a 6TB if the price per gig was very competetive.

Interface is SATA and size 3.5 inch (as you'd probably expect ).

I've been very happy with WD disks in the past but I've lost track of their branding nowadays, green no longer exists, blue is the new green and black is the new blue, or something .

All suggestions welcome.

 

[Deleted member 178884]

I would consider a 6TB if the price per gig was very competetive.

Toshiba x300 6tb
I've owned mine for at least a year or two now, I remember paying £120 new off ebay. It's a excellent drive and I've been using as a game storage drive all the time, It's faster than I had expected and it's reliable, I normally run seagates only but I've found I've had two 2tb drives die out of the blue after a year and they aren't under warranty either.

The bigger the better, 8TB+ is preferable but I would consider a 6TB if the price per gig was very competetive.

I would personally take a look at pcpartpicker, If you go to start a build you can "add" a hard drive, and from there you can sort the "price/gb" chart to show you how much it costs per gigabyte, I would highly recommend checking that out.